Traditional Heresies Concerning the Triune God

The Truth Refuting Modalism

When God created in Genesis 1, He did so through the Son: “All things came into being through Him” (John 1:3). Furthermore, the Spirit of God was brooding upon the surface of the waters, evidence that the entire Trinity was integrally involved in creation. The same triune cooperation was also at work throughout the human life of Jesus in the four Gospels as well as in the spiritual experience of the Christians in Acts and beyond. First, in the incarnation the Holy Spirit came upon the virgin Mary and the power of the Most High overshadowed her; the holy thing born of this union was called the Son of God (Luke 1:35). In His human living, the Son was always with the Father (John 8:29; 16:32) and always ministered by the Spirit (Matt. 12:28). In His death, the Son offered Himself without blemish to God the Father through the eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:14). Finally, when God raised Jesus from the dead, Jesus was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1:4). The believers initially become involved with the Triune God as repentant sinners who believe into the Son of God, are born of the Spirit (John 3:6), and are thus begotten of God the Father (John 1:13). They are then baptized into the name of the Father, Son, and Spirit (Matt. 28:19). As a result, the believers are enabled to continue in their Christian life enjoying the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14). These verses demonstrate not only the eternality of all Three of the Trinity, but also Their intrinsic, intricate involvement in every step of God’s work and in every aspect of the believers’ experience.

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